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UA Little Rock Creates Associate of Construction Science Degree Partnership with Vilonia High School
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The Vilonia School Board will have five special board meetings early in the month of January to interview superintendent candidates, an agenda provided to the Log Cabin by retiring superintendent David Stephens read.
On five consecutive nights from Jan. 4 to Jan. 8, the board will meet at 6 p.m. and have dinner with five candidates provided to them by the executive recruitment firm McPherson and Jacobson.
While specific interview dates for each candidate are not available, per board president Kent Charles, the final five candidates include Doug Adams, most recently of the Suffern School District in New York; Allen Williams, former superintendent of the Prairie Grove School District; Cathy Riggins, assistant superintendent of the Vilonia School District; Todd Edwards, principal of Bryant High School; and Danny Brackett, assistant superintendent of the Russellville School District.
A shortage of workers has plagued the construction industry for years. According to Forbes, after the 2008 Great Recession, 600,000 construction jobs were lost that havenât returned. A report earlier this year by the Associated Builders and Contractors, a national construction industry trade group, stated that the industry needed to hire an additional 550,000 workers in 2020.
The worker shortage in the construction industry is exacerbated by the lack of young people showing an interest in entering the profession. Per a 2018 Wall Street Journal article, the share of construction workers who are 24 years of age or younger has declined in 48 states since 2005.
The challenge for the construction industry moving forward is to raise awareness of its careers and to recruit young people to join the industry, a process which will begin in the Vilonia School District in kindergarten.